In theory, github.action_path and env.GITHUB_ACTION_PATH should be more or less interchangeable and work in all GitHub Action Runtime environments.
Great theory. 🦄 🦷🧚♂️ 🎅...
There were bugs in nektos/act
| Bug | Fixed in |
|---|---|
| nektos/act#603 | v0.2.22 |
| nektos/act#607 | v0.2.22 |
| nektos/act#1488 | v0.2.35 |
check-spelling had workarounds for them that relied on github.action_path as it was more reliable
GitHub's action runner has bugs
- actions/runner#716 - currently impacts self-hosted runners
As the current version of nektos/act is v0.2.46, it seems like now is a fairly reasonable time to drop support for the workaround and switch to a form that works around the GitHub self-hosted runner bug instead...
While I'm fairly certain these bugs existed, since I reported them, and I worked around them, at this time, I can't reproduce them (using old versions of act), so it's possible that there weren't actually shipping versions with these bugs, but I'm pretty sure there were. Oh well.
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